I rediscovered an important tip: if it works fine in a command window, and you run it as a service but can't get to the config page and TiVo can't see it... you have to mark the python win32 service as allowed through the firewall

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Also make sure that if you are running 64 bit python you install the 64 bit extensions for pywin as well...vice versa for 32 bit. And make sure pywin is installed for All Users.

And when you are setting up the service you run the command prompt with Administrative privileges.

I've been using Pytivo with my TivoHD for years and want to know what the difference is with Tivo Premiere? Does HD transfer faster? is there a different transfer format? any better features? any problems?

Sometime ago, someone told me how to chage a config setting for pytivo so that the video shares do not show up in the MyShows list. I'll be darned if I can find it with a search though. Its not in the wiki either.

I think it was wmcbrine that told me but could not find the message.

If anyone knows, I would be grateful and will update the wiki this time.

Sometime ago, someone told me how to chage a config setting for pytivo so that the video shares do not show up in the MyShows list. I'll be darned if I can find it with a search though. Its not in the wiki either.

I think it was wmcbrine that told me but could not find the message.

If anyone knows, I would be grateful and will update the wiki this time.

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Was me in the Synology post on the pyTivo Forum.

You need to place the following in your pyTivo.conf

Code:

[_tivo_TSN]
Shares =

Put share name in to show only that share or leave blank to show no shares. This disables zeroconf mode if I remember. Restart both pyTivo and the TiVo in question.

This is in the wiki but is not described exactly how it is working for me.

*I am experiencing a bug though where if I place this into the .conf file and then use the web admin to access the config this section will be erased. Not sure what's up with that. So if you have issues with the shares showing again in your NPL that's probably what happened.

Having a lil trouble with videos in sub folders not showing up. when i select the share from the main tivo window i can see that the folder has files with a number indicator but when i open the sub folder no videos show up. i checked to make sure the video was working by moving to the main share folder.

Not sure what to say other than it happens for me. I manually add a blank 'Shares = ' line under each [_tivo_tsn] heading, restart pyTivo, then go to the web admin, make other changes, save and restart. At this point the pyTiVo.conf has the Shares line deleted in all _tivo_tsn sections.

Not a big deal though as this is on my NAS installation so once it's setup I pretty much don't touch it anymore. I just have to remember to double check my .conf file last.

I'm not a Python whiz but since no one else is jumping in here:
Do you have a cheetah subfolder in your pyTivo installation folder?
Does it contain a file named filters.py (and many other files)?
If not, you don't have a complete installation of pyTiVo. This subfolder and its files are normally included.

I'm not a Python whiz but since no one else is jumping in here:
Do you have a cheetah subfolder in your pyTivo installation folder?
Does it contain a file named filters.py (and many other files)?
If not, you don't have a complete installation of pyTiVo. This subfolder and its files are normally included.

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Can't say I have seen this either. All I can offer is that maybe the Python install is corrupt or that the pyTivo download was corrupt (also assuming you are using the latest snapshot from here)

pyTivo is generally as easy as ensuring you have Python installed, downloading the latest pyTivo snapshot, making the config file correct and then running it. Not sure what went wrong for you. I am pretty sure Python 2.7 is W2K compatible.

I'm not a Python whiz but since no one else is jumping in here:
Do you have a cheetah subfolder in your pyTivo installation folder?
Does it contain a file named filters.py (and many other files)?
If not, you don't have a complete installation of pyTiVo. This subfolder and its files are normally included.

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Had no cheetah folder. Decided to clear out the pyTivo folder and start over. This time, when I extracted the zip, there was only one thing there - a folder named wmcbrine, which contained everyything, including a cheetah folder. Probably could have just left everything there but I decided to move everything out of it to pyTivo. I now have it running and it is working fine. Thanks.

Having a lil trouble with videos in sub folders not showing up. when i select the share from the main tivo window i can see that the folder has files with a number indicator but when i open the sub folder no videos show up. i checked to make sure the video was working by moving to the main share folder.